Bridge across the Álfagjá rift valley in southwest Iceland, that is part of the boundary between the Eurasian and North American continental tectonic plates. Image credits: Chris 73.

The rift valley is a classic example of a divergent plate boundary. Photograph by Chris Johns. SCIENCE; REFERENCE; Plate Tectonics. ... At divergent boundaries in the oceans, ...

A narrow zone, the rift is a developing divergent tectonic plate boundary where the African Plate is in the process of splitting into two tectonic plates, called the Somali Plate and the Nubian ...

Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. ... The Continental Crush (collisional boundary) Slippin' and a Slidin' (transform boundary) ...

The study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, shows that initiation of rifting in the western branch of the East African Rift began more than 14 million years earlier than previously thought, ...